Freetube is great but keeps breaking every now and then. I assume YouTube is making an effort to block it and others.
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TheMightyCat@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I would suggest using another frontend like freetube then trying to fix google’s frontend.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 week ago
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
This. Youtube is dead to me.
Sounds like OP actually interacts on the site with comments and likes and whatever so I can’t account for that.
In my case I get by with a combination of freetube and tubearchivist. I expect that one day youtube will find a way to finally close the door on this type of freeloading. Hopefully that will provide the incentive for more people to use more platforms.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I like interacting with actual YouTube because it keeps track of my subscriptions and watch history across my devices. (It’s not that I want Google to know my habits; it’s that I don’t want videos I already watched coming up in my feed.)
If one of these YouTube alternative front ends would solve for that use-case without too much faff and hassle, I’d happily switch.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You can usually export & import your subscriptions and bookmarks.
Mileage varies between different apps.
Many would call that faff and hassle. I’m not that attached to my subscriptions.
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I need you to understand that manually exporting and importing subscriptions isn’t even slightly like automatically synchronizing watch history (including non-subscribed channels).